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Yellow Line | Toll Nakahttps://sunilkumarkopparapu.wordpress.com/2017/03/09/yellow-line-toll-naka/
https://sunilkumarkopparapu.wordpress.com/2017/03/09/yellow-line-toll-naka/#respondThu, 09 Mar 2017 09:31:09 +0000http://sunilkumarkopparapu.wordpress.com/?p=233]]>Have seen a lot of discussion on the Yellow Line rule at the Toll Naka which as I understood was

if you are stranded beyond a yellow line marked at the toll collecting station, then you are exempted from paying the toll fee

I thought I will check if this rule is for real because while there was a lot of discussion I did not find any specific rule to this effect. The best way is to find through RTI (right to information). So, I filed an RTI

and the response was quick and ..

end result seems to be that there is no such yellow line rule applicable at toll nakas in India or Mumbai!

]]>https://sunilkumarkopparapu.wordpress.com/2017/03/09/yellow-line-toll-naka/feed/0sunilkumarkopparapuScreenshot from 2017-03-09 14-57-37Screenshot from 2017-03-09 14-59-19Mumbai Traffic Police Drivehttps://sunilkumarkopparapu.wordpress.com/2012/09/12/mumbai-traffic-police-drive/
https://sunilkumarkopparapu.wordpress.com/2012/09/12/mumbai-traffic-police-drive/#respondWed, 12 Sep 2012 10:17:41 +0000http://sunilkumarkopparapu.wordpress.com/?p=213]]>I have been driving the same route for the last several years.

Several months ago, at the T-junction in Mankhurd (Mumbai, India) the traffic signal that points to right is hidden by a box structure (could not figure out what it was). I complained (can you believe it) to the traffic constable on duty on one of the days to work … obviously nothing really happened.

Until.

“You have crossed the zebra crossing, show me your licence and pay a fine of INR 100” said the traffic cop. I protested saying that the visibility of the signal was not there and inspite of my complaint earlier nothing has been done. So how can you fault me? While I protested nearly 10-12 more vehicles have been hauled for “Zebra line crossing”.

I am told it is a drive. Orders are from top to make sure no vehicle crosses the zebra lines when they wait for the signal to turn colors. And no doubt at the particular junction there are almost 10 cops. Two hundred meters from this junction, most of the vehicles cross the zebra line and and wait for the signal to turn green. Not a single cop!

Sets me thinking. Why cops only at that junction? Does not require an Einstein to answer! Because only at that particular junction people can not see the signal because it is hidden behind a box and hence might make a mistake and they have their catch

And what does my protest do? Nothing really. “I do not have the time to listen to you, you can go and say this in the court” says the cop.

I did feel harassed and make it a point to tell the cop, but he does not have the time, he is busy fining the next common man like me for “purposely” parking on the zebra crossing waiting for the signal to turn.

]]>https://sunilkumarkopparapu.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/using-google-asr/feed/9sunilkumarkopparapuMumbai Traffichttps://sunilkumarkopparapu.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/mumbai-traffic/
https://sunilkumarkopparapu.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/mumbai-traffic/#respondTue, 11 Sep 2012 03:43:19 +0000http://sunilkumarkopparapu.wordpress.com/?p=177]]>“There is a traffic jam on a particular road and hence take an alternative route, now enjoy the music” is the general message on the FM radio in the car.

It set me thinking, I hear this almost everyday when I am driving in Mumbai, India and yet it is just treated like any other news … or may be not. It has sort of become “no news” because it does not contain anything that I already know. Probably the day there is no traffic noise will sort of become the news!

It is a pity that we (all) know it yet we are either unable to do anything (which I hope is not true) or probably think what can I do about it (reasonable to think this is true). Why is it that we are prepared to spend time in the traffic day in and day out and still not worry about it? Technology advancing, IQ of people increasing, everything seems to be progressing (economy?) and so is traffic!

There are several though processes. several of them blaming the government. Popular among them (a) Decrease the number of vehicle licences, (b) better public transport, (c) hike the price of petrol, … (z) Allow only even number vehicles to run on even days etc. but we have seen none of this has taken shape. Obviously government does not see this because the people who can do something actually zoom on the road with the traffic constables making sure no other vehicle is on the road so that the Minister thinks the road is traffic less, in even in the peak hours!

But the traffic remain. Probably it is up to us to try to see how we can make Mumbai roads “traffic jam free”. How? There is no one magical solution I am sure.

Will Mumbai (you and me) put together some comments to see if this can be solved optimally

While on a morning walk (in a coconut tree rich areas) you will find these small baby coconuts below the coconut trees.

Pick one of them and peel off the covering on the baby coconut. This exposes the soft part of the baby coconut.

Now pick up two broom dried sticks (made from the coconut leaf). Take a stick of 6″ and pierce one end into the coconut, then slowly bend the stick so as to make a “U” (English alphabet) so that the other end reaches the soft surface of the coconut.

Now you have a U stuck into the coconut.

Make three 1o” sticks from the remaining coconut sticks

Now inset one of the 10″ stick into the soft coconut just in between the U

We are almost ready.

Now insert the two 10″ sticks such that it passes from under the U on top of the middle stick and the again goes under the U (see the figure)